The mysterious nature of time

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I found some interesting excerpts from a book on the interfacing aspect of TIME --

source: http://www.holmerarts.com/rick/aztec.htm

Excerpt from the first chapter entitled The Sacred Calendar:

There is an explanation for everything, or so the ancient Aztec, Toltec and Maya believed. The citizens of those great civilizations looked to religious scholars to explain the meaning of life and the reasons for all events. Generations of shaman-priests devoted their lives to recording and analyzing every imaginable occurrence, and they discovered that both celestial and terrestrial history repeats itself through finite cycles of time. These fundamental repetitive patterns were distilled into a calendar that the Aztecs called their tonalpoualli. This calendar was central to interpreting and planning their secular and spiritual lives; and over time - because of its mystical predictive power - it became sacred to them.

One of the many traditional beliefs about the sacred calendar is the causal link between peoples' birth dates and their personality, psyche and fate. Like natal astrology in the Western World, conditions associated with the day of birth influence the fundamental aspects of a person’s character and development. The causal mechanism for astrologers is the relative position of our solar system’s planets and the physical forces they exert on the newborn. For Mesoamericans, however, explanations do not involve physical influences but are purely transcendental and metaphysical. They believe that everything in existence is intrinsically spiritual, including time itself. Spiritual energy is the core of every animate and inanimate entity - from rocks, mountains, rivers, wind, rain, plants, and animals to human beings - otherwise they would not exist. Time progresses therefore it is also real, and it is perceived and tallied as the succession of discrete and definable days.

Each consecutive day is a distinct blend of pure spiritual energy that comes and goes in predictable cycles influencing everything in existence, from the fate of nations to the destiny of a newborn. Time is the interface between the supernatural and natural worlds - it is the gateway though which powerful spiritual forces manipulate and influence the providence of all. However, the passage of time is not a perpetual, self-sustaining system. It requires a continuous source of fuel to keep the succession of days rolling on, and this is provided by the physical and emotional sacrifices of human beings who are repaying a debt to the supernatural world for their original creation. Without sufficient contributions of human spiritual energy, time will stop and the sun will cease to rise. The secrets to understanding the mystical nature of time and its symbiotic relationship to all existence are encoded in the sacred calendar. Therefore, to understand the calendar is to understand the very essence of traditional Mesoamerican philosophy